More quotes by Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations."
"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."
"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."
"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."
"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"